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More Free and Open Source Law Resources
Concurring Opinions - More Free and Open Source Law Resources: Law.com has a good summary of the way projects seeking to make opinions, statutes, and other legal materials free. The history of these efforts goes back to the early 90s, but the recent changes may the ones to threaten the big shots. According to the […]
March 2008 / 1 min.
Blood Test for African Sleeping Sickness
Wired - Third World Biotech: Blood Test for African Sleeping Sickness: Australian scientists have developed a blood test for African sleeping sickness that does not require the fancy equipment found in upscale medical labs. Even better, they made the details of their work available for free by publishing a paper in the Feb. 6 issue […]
March 2008 / 2 min.
Canada judge rules emergency wiretap law unconstitutional
JURIST - Paper Chase: Canada judge rules emergency wiretap law unconstitutional: British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Barry Davies has ruled that Section 184.4 of the Canadian Criminal Code, which allows law enforcement officers to electronically intercept private communications in ‘exceptional circumstances’ without court authorization, is unconstitutional because it violates ‘the fundamental freedom to be free […]
March 2008 / 1 min.
Australian judge on privacy: Computer code trumps the law
CNET News.com: Judge on privacy: Computer code trumps the law: Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby says computer code is more potent than the law-and that legislators are powerless to do anything about it. Technology has outpaced the legal system’s ability to regulate its use in matters of privacy and fair use rights, said Kirby, […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
When you die, become an intellectual property donor.
kottke.org: When you die, become an intellectual property donor.: Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. Make an intellectual property donation. By donating your IP into the public domain you will […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
High Court Says No to Wiretapping, Yes to Exclusionary Rule
WSJ.com - High Court Says No to Wiretapping, Yes to Exclusionary Rule: Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case that, commentators say, gives them an opporunity to carve out more exceptions to the “exclusionary rule,” a criminal procedure doctrine that excludes evidence obtained from an unlawful search. At the same time, the Court, […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
Freeing America’s Operating System
Creative Commons - Freeing AmericaaEUR™s Operating System: Last November Carl Malamud’s Public.Resource.Org announced an initiative to free 1.8 million pages of U.S. case law, publishing them online with no restrictions on reuse. Today the results of this initiative are available at http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/. From the press release (pdf): TodayaEUR™s release covers all U.S. Supreme Court decisions […]
February 2008 / 2 min.
Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law
TorrentFreak - Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law A crucial factor in the ruling is thus that the ISP commits copyright infringement in their routers when they allow access to The Pirate Bay. An absurd claim of course, and even more serious, it opposes the Infosoc Directive, that formed the basis of the Danish […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active
Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active: Comcast, in a reverse effort to VerizonaEUR™s well-received neutrality plea, has now stated for the record that it will keep filters active as long as music and video sharing continues to occur within its aEURoetubeaEUR complex, reports Mike Sachoff of WebProNews today. Indeed, though Comcast for a long […]
February 2008 / 1 min.
The Public Library of Law
The Public Library of Law: What is the Public Library of Law? Searching the Web is easy. Why should searching the law be any different? That’s why Fastcase has created the Public Library of Law – to make it easy to find the law online. PLoL is the largest free law library in the world, […]
February 2008 / 1 min.